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This is Just one example of the effect of the steel "shortage" in Canada, as created by a govern- ment decree. As if that were not bad enough, the steel workers' unions of the United States decid- ed to stage a strike. which creat- ed a still further shortage of steel by putting all the steel plants out of operation. In doing so the Steelworkers not only created a total loss of steel production; they put themselves out of em- ployment and incurred a total loaa of income for themselves and lamilies, and they did the same for thousands of workers in other industries that depended upon steel products tor their livelihood In a news item from Ottawa. Mr. K S, Harris, defence steel director, " quoted as saying that the us, steel strike may shape. into a "national calamity" for Canada Steel supplies, he said, were drying up to a trickle But the moat serious effects on Cana» diam industry may come now that the strike is over, and will persist tor months thereafter The big fear is that the quarterly allot- ment of United States steel for Canada will be cut in the strike‘a wake This would eauae many Canadian durable and con-timer goods to he in short My for a lone while " This was the price: It lasted 55 days. It cost an estimated $4.5 billions It deprived the us. and Canada of l? million tons ot badly needed steel at a critical period in our mutual defense pro- gram. It forced plant shutdowns all across both countries. Shqrt- Mes will plague us for months, at least. What did all this net Murray and his followers? Wages were notl an issue at all. J ust compulsory unionism--the union shop. It "er-l ray had 'been able to pry the full union shop out of the industry. he' might have some reason for cheering. But he only got a shndow of i that. Present employees while they have to join can quit almost‘ right away. . 2 A "great victory" indeed. It's about time union members in their own and the country’s) interest began taking a closer look at the profit-and-loss juggling of some of their alleged leaders. They wouldn't stand for it in bush} neg: or government. How long will they put up with it in their own organization? I J asked a neighbor of mmel where he was gomg for hrs holi-L "rs. He looked at me with a, blank expression. "Holidays" he said. "What's that?" I tried to ex- plain. but he interrupted me byl fondly recalling old and happy) tar-on things, and fishinga lungl ago. Then he informed me that; his partner had left him, Theyl were in partnership as consulung, engmeers, and up to about six months ago had employed a sum, of draftsmen drawing plans for} steel construction. He explained that when the government can rulled 90 per cent of the steel pro- duction for defence purposes. it created a shortage of steel for private building, and he was put out of business along wnth many small contractors. Let the rank-and-file union man put that on his nddind machine and see If 5'ic an hour was worth it. And what possible yardstick can Phillip Murray be using when he claims a "great victory" in the us. steel strike? EFFECTIVE ECONOMIC SUICIDE Was it worth it? _ In any other business but that ot running labor unions. there would be a careful reckoning after a disruption such as that caused by the recent strikes here and in the United States. The CIO pulled 35,000 British Columbia loggers out ot the woods and kept them out for over six weeks. Their defiant demand: a raise of 35c an hour. What did they finally accept last week? Five and a hall cents! And look at the price paid for that. Strikers lost $500,000 in wages every day; approximately $30 millions altogether. That was the direct loss. Retail merchants, the timber industry and other labor industries depending on timber suffered seriously. The whole economy of the province was hurt and time alone will tell whether highly competitive domestic and export markets lost through the strike can ever be regained. l With cars 'becoming faster every year, and human reactions making little adjustment to them, it is probable the highway toll will continue unul either fool-proof roads are built or oil's come equipped with robot drivers. The Nation's Business Holidays have been for the past few years, the signal for mu: destruction on our highways. The tangle of drivers Irvin; to get somewhere m a hurry and the week-end driver out for a slow “in, create a condition which " almost bound to destroy property and live; Despite the millions of dollars in gasoline and vehicle taxes which are poured into the government treasury, Canadian highways are tu- hom being as good or as sale as they could and should be. Poor pawng, bad road shoulders, blind sections, sharp corner. and steep hills, all help towards keeping the toll ot lives and propa- ty high. I for their tax dollar, the Canadxan motorist probably gets less than at any other country. Many ot the new roads are likely built " political sops rather than means of easing tratBc, Pew accident are caused by fast drivers who know their car Ind “a capabilities. The casual week-end driver, the my rider out (It I stow cruise on 1 Int highway, the thinker who drives unduly up the highway white his mmd works on some other problem com- pletely - from his car, are responsible for most of the Accident mui, granting that the Prowncial Police have a lot ot territory to com, their constant bearing down on the (at driver and their a“! to see the "poker", us out of keepmg with modern day road Every vehicle, regardless of condition will be on the road trom now until the snow comes. A wide variety of drviers will be behind the wheels and anything can happen. _ That is I grim prmrpee, and if Editorial Comment ther Editors Say By Lewis Milligan WHEN WILL LABOR WEIGH THE COST? Fast Cars - Slow Minds THE WATERLOO CHRONICLE (From The Financial Post) _ As I write this, a newspaper 1tomes to hand with a front page headline which reads: "Feat II,- 00' at Stelco In Ontario Ind Que. bee may strike with“! Ten Days". The report states that "the Unit- ed Steelworkers of America (C10- CCL; are threatening elective economic Idiom against Stelco'a mill and fabricating Plants to bring their wages in ine with US. "RM" What do those words, "effective economic ac- tron", mean? To take effective economic action against an enemy sountry would mean to bring that country into bankruptcy and its people to starvation. For a trade union to take such action against an industry might well bring it into bankruptcy, but it woul at the same time bankrupt the union and deprive its members of their means of earning a living. That would, in plnin n 1%? an act of economic suicid‘a. econo- my of the steelworkera or any other workers is inseparable from the economy of the tt'tt7 in which they work and that o the nation as a whole One need not he an economist to m that simple truth, . an enemy had done this thing tuI us it would have been regarded), as an act of war, and the whole; country would have been up ”ml arms against it. But it was an, "mside Job", and a virtual act of sabotage against a vital industry,: which could not have been more] serious it it had been carried out l by third column saboteurs. And the irony of the situqtion is that! it has all been brought about as a means of increasing the take, home pay and improving the lot of the workers. The 'ttte of the strike have and will tr the ew. treme opposites to those aims. The striking steelworkers have had no lake-home pay at all for the duration of the strike, and whatever nominal increase in hourly wage rates they may gain, it will never make up for the loss of $350 million they have Buttered during the strske--to say nothing of the enormous loss and injury to the national economy. The lou of steel is estimated at 13 million tons, almost as much as the entire British steel industry produces in a year, u’rlvul by Vein-d3; with am, pol. service. to basin August I II.- --xt-'t mp mm the four-day Inm- After . four-week revival Ip- gunner in the Twin cum. r313: l"tt,'tg, "lam-UH}:- eq ped an ade shot oh y down Burk's Hill In: Monday Inernoon. odBcUlly ending their extruded K-W campaign Wallaby Min Bound for Gotham Ind, the Ir me - Aoeefullr nnetteted Brunk Troupe Hits Road After Four- Week Stay Here In spite of all he understands. A man is helpless without hands. He fashioned weapons and became An expert, hunting foes and game ; He started to domeatieate And was a herdsman by that fate; At last he learned to till the land And built a cabin near at hand; And soon he harnessed for-his aid What motions wind and water made. Of all the skills man could acquire The greatest was the use of tire, Till after an enormous lapae-- Close to a million years perhaps-- When he invented a machine That ran by steam, or gasolene, And lastly by electric force That made more obsolete the horse; And before long he learned to By Intent to dominate the sky; And in that very century He tapped atomic energy. - Beyond the shadow of a doubt All major changes came about, - Not by the rules his mind has taught, But by the tools his hands have wrought. The mind of man was meant to guide A pair of hands that could provide The means for realizing schemes Which often seemed like idle dreams And were rejected by all those Who always stubbornly oppose What human progress badly needs To save mankind from stagnant creeds. The very nature of human nature la not to have an established nature. Mind as no other “Status Quo" Besides the urge to learn to know; And only experiment brings A clear understanding of things. Begotten without his knowledge or consent, Born ignorant, and irresponsible, And inarticulate, and helpless, too, And most of all self-centred from the start. The human infant could not face this world Without his mother's tended love and care, Because his only asset is his brain Which is more plastic than all other cells But has to master life by slow degrees. How has the caveman managed to ascend Without a stronger hand that could defend? That is the theme I undertake to ply, And though I fail, I cannot help but try. Until the mystery is solved How human consciousness evolved, No mind begins to preconceive What man is destined to achieve. The greatest thinking of tile past Has been enbalined to make it lat Inside a book which is the corpse Wherein the spirit fades and won». A primitive mentality Invented a morality. - Unbiased rationality Sets free our personality. Mere books can only imprison a mind; But children may improve its kind, If one does not depend on fate In choosing the required mate. Our children are the stepping-stones To ever higher mental zones, Because they learn to understand, To carry on, and to expand Within a single human spun What generations had to plan. More scribbling of letters ineitss Am'ibstobalisvethathewritss His great Cmator"s basic laws Without committing any ttmm. / We chant a bookish litany With parrotrlike monotony; But aster is unbiased wit, Because its Maker fashioned it To be alert and well-equipped Foe criticising human script To keep the true and scrap the trash And not to worship and rehash What presentdsy theology Adopted from mythology. The mulish stubbornness of some No argument will overcome. They have more faith in bookish lore Than in the brain that nature bore; Although the scribes of long ago lacked the experience to know By means of sheer inductive thought What strict experiments have taught inductively the mind of man, Since the tseientifk quest began. Have master minds invented more Than healthy human bodies bore? Where could you ever hope to tind A disembodied act of mind? handout of with. brought The strong.“ impetus to thought Butended insundu, Bonn-e I writh- utatmo but. The fulLdgmt 01m By in aitttyrifatir, ban. THE END OF BOOK TWO "I cannon and.» “some“ . . MAN IN m um '. _'] 2_1klhI11rrrrPr-teetaiuam- A Alida-hi: ' ”my”. BOOK TWO mm m’ a.» iutilauui; "YT yith .05. Wk“ 3.). non, Roe, Georg. m intend. to (rave! to Virgin“ to VH8 mu. thm. in: print. plan. on. of two [named n M: will uwv ......9r.r__%. Iv wit-WI will gov“. What!“ for die in- ”an jam-n", " In. W [Add totheqtrPeueu1nte '. . . A. D. Henderson, farmer of le Lac La Nonne district in Al- berta has a fine hobby; has a col- Ilection of 8,000 eggs including "hose ot the now extinct passen- ger pigeon and the guadeloupe :pettel. . . Flower stealing from [graves in Vernon, B.C, cemetery Joules ire of council, one alder- man thinks it unfortunate they couldn’t have a policeman doing in permanent job sitting in the icemetery in the evenings. . . "What, no salt?" is the heading on 1 a story telling of a St. John, NM., ihabitual drunk whom police put iin the cells and discovered later eating his own arm, chewing, away at it cheerfully and hiiss- (fully. . .Mrs. Mary Dahl at Pem- lbroke, Ont,. keeps busy. having 'just completed a quilt for Rev. " if. Harrington to be sold at the' [bazaar . . Fred Constable, min- (ing rigger at Flin F'toh, Man, Heaught a 37-lb. and AO-ltr. fish in " contest to win a brand new iautomobile; and he can't even ‘. _ _ J. Craig Brokowski. who died “recently at Calgary at " was , proud of the fact that he had been i a taxpayer onger than anyone in :Canada; at the age of one his fa- Tther placed him on the taxroll, [registered owner of a piece of lproperty at Craighurst, Ont. . . A 1young couple came to the tourist 1 00th at Leamington, Ont., to en- Auire if they could be married lin one day there, havin‘f heard you could do so in Cans a, were [very disappointed to he told the sad story that they couldnt . . ’Two weeks ago it was twins for John Spek at Gladstone, Man., a “my and girl; when mother got home she discovered there were 'two ilrls in the bundle; just a It.tieta' _e_ and low. r _ At Amherst. NS., Miss Ellen Munro, middle aged spinster was brutally heat- en and robbed of ten dollars while saying prayers right in St. Charly 50mm Catholic Church. . Canadian: At Armstronk," B.C.. resuming a feature of pre- war yea-n, 50 Bower boxes have been placed at intervals in the downtown net. . ' Camrose. Alta, te supported the Red Cross glow Donor Clinic, large queues {on-min, and ttt 1030 pm. 380 pints_ o_bl_oog Ind been collected. "ourt'trd_rt.di.Bti-ttr-torstteu- vt-re-thr-Aa-ee-trim-ra-tsth. Qrsthnsmet-aqettud"Tmdt.dNtstu-Ro-BhN.,"Fdarn mmwumuumuumum, GruaHA-tti.Xh.rarthtr.artrt.thrArstrm-were, 't-Htto_.ieta1b-,atteetorta.eeseartativeof B_U.N.;B_tnC-,U.N.Aa-t8oeretaer- to: Public 1mNemati-AG.Mnatt-Cah.-nas,atMez1eo, Deputy “new-Gourd of the U.N. Teal-led W Ant-maul. Country Editor ["1215 ”than.“ 1EEIIjEITt Jfl’ilfi You In cligible for sonic: io the Canadian Army Active Pun-e if you In " to 40 yum of a... ("demon to 48, phylirnlly it ind ready to um unywhcn. Canada'. tough. indopcndom lnfnmrymen are the an... Stthtirttt ooldlcn In in Wald. At home not] ovum-I. than young men "and In the front line! of Canada'- (Mom. There In o-ding (new opportunities for young men in (he Canadian Amy Active Force. They In career opporruoities with (In-liens” M "venture, the ndtemcnt of can! in the most important iob in Canada cod-y - defence. In and: Ind claim. the Mortar Crow adds to an Winona of Int-nay. haunt. cannon-ted 6repower is vital to successful operatioo in the field. It all. foe cool, highly trained men to operate the many cumplu wupom of the Infantry. FThe Stettler (Alta.) Inde- biii pendent goes to 'bat for the coy- 9 ote, a free enterpriser who could exp "easily retire to the uninhabitable mal parts of our vast northland and cluc live in comparative peace, thurldil that does not suit him at alr'iiiii The editor thinks people of Al- sho berta should admire, not hunt aha and hate him. "Here's is a wild the animal that has come up the hard f the way. with no friends anywhere in led the world. He has a cunning that par puts the human brain to shame mg] . Truro, NS., Weekly has the answer, "why able-[bodied men draw unemployment insurance benefits in the cities while farm- ers are unable to hire help nec- ecsary to cultivate their fields" with this: "rt doesn't offer the short hours. the tive-day week. I . _ one who decides to live GGG his enemies because he raises the kiqd_of food__hg prefers." . Commenting on the wail of Comrade Pravetorev. Soviet De- puty Minister of Trade regarding the lack at variety and poor qua- lity ot the merchandise in Rus- sian department stores, the Swift Current Sun cannot imagine Trade Minister Howe bothering about such matters, which is an argument between storekeepers and customers. "Yet there are those in Canada, many of them within the ranks of the socialist CCF, who are ready and willing to take on Comrade Pravetorev's headaches without a qualm. For state-ownership of the means of production means state responsi- bility for the failure of factories to turn out the kind of goods peo- ple need at the price they are able and willing to pay. Imagine, for example, the kind of life CCF' lea, der M. J. Coldwell would lead it it were his responsibility to de- cide upon the style and quality of the dresses to be worn by the women of Canada in 1953? Com- rade Ps plight makes one won- der why anybody would ever want to be even a socialist, let alone a communist." . he Strathmore (Alta) Stan. dard holds the Canadian govern- ment is unfair to motorists. torc, ing us to pay five times as much auto tax as Americans do "We suggest the motorist IS paying too large a share of Canada's tax mil and that a major reduction is in order." drive a car, _ Built in 1908, I gift of Anglicisns of Great Britain, St. Bridget's Church at Brsljennie, Sash., was struck by lightning and destroyed recently NOW mammal: the Board of mm ot the Roman Catholic Sap-nu.- School for School Soc- tian No. 0. Towmhi of Wellnley, ENACTS M 'rt'ltll'w"ll, l, That for the purposes "ore- said that: shall be borrowed the sum of $7,000. and note. signed by the Chairman and the Secretary, Treasurer, bearing interest at the rate of tive per centum per an- num, shall be issued in the amounts as set forth in Schedule “",A hereto annexed. ‘ the law as it stands does not pro- tect the citizens in these matters, parliament shall be asked to make a law that will." The paper holds the right to work is one of our freedoms. . Shaunavon Bask., Standard: The one universal amusement of mankind, enjoy.ed by both sexes and all ages, is that of judging and discussing the neighbors. Of course it ts an impudence, tor we never know what we are talking about ' The Carleton Ont., Canadian expresses its opinion on union matters. with an editorial con- cluding: "Whether or not it is called in to settle the question of railway wages, the government should let it be known that there shall be no union shop and no checkott In Canada. And that if O Commenting on the fact that 92 people faced drunk charges after the Stampede here, 12 of them.wh1te men, the Williams Lake (BC) Tribune claims the government was wrong in ex- tending beer parlor privileges to the Indian yet. “The answer to the problem of what we can do for the Indian lies in the Re- serves . F ' here is a place govern- ment can step in with the pros- pect of a wide scope of improve- ment, Their home life needs to be improved, also their living conditions and further education oi their children . . . only when these conditions have been im- proved to a reasonable standard will the Indian people as a whole be ready to accept the responsi- bilities of citizenship." the holidays With pay, the wages based on the worker's need re- gardless of the value of his work, or the yariety of companionship and entertainment, or the unem- ployment insurance or retirement bikini that the city offers." .BY-LAW NUMBER tmr Year 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 SCHEDULE "A" TO IY-LAW NUMBER ON! 1n the drunk For " “amulet-I visit the Army recruiting do. near“! your homo. No " Ismael Dow, Woth Noun, “no & Chum ,. Guava. Ont. Mr ' “mound Dow, Anmory Park, - Inca, Kinsman. 0m Canadian Anny lemming botion, 'o lldnnond 89. W., Tomb, Ont. No. , Pomonnd 00900. Vidal" lunch, 'ttrobot 50nd. tendon. 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